 | Robert Lowth - 1774 - 168 lehte
...Corruption : by which the Form of the Paft Time is confounded with that of the Participle ia thefe Verbs, few in proportion, which have them quite different from one another. This confufion prevails greatly in common difcourfe, and is too much authorifed by the example of Come of... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 554 lehte
...inclination and tendency of the language seems to have given occasion to the introducing of a very great Corruption ; by which the form of the Past Time...Participle in these Verbs, few in proportion, which have t them quite different from one another. This confusion prevails greatly in common discourse, and is... | |
 | John Dougall - 1810 - 734 lehte
...inclination and tendency of the language seems to have given occasion to the introducing of a very great Corruption ; by which the form of the Past Time...is confounded with that of the Participle in these \jerbs, few in proportion, which have them quite different from one another. This confusion prevails... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin - 1834 - 542 lehte
...participle the same] seems," says Dr. Lowthe, " to have given occasion to the introducing of a very great corruption, by which the form of the past time is confounded with that of the the participle, in those verbs, few in proportion, which have them quite different from one another.... | |
 | Samuel Pegge - 1844 - 438 lehte
...is toward the other form which makes the past tense (active) and the participle (passive) the same. This confusion prevails greatly in common discourse, and is too much authorised by our best writers." * The force of habit is then exemplified by the Bishop in familiar cases, where... | |
 | William Rushton - 1869 - 352 lehte
...for ' I have drunk ;' bid for bidden, got for gotten, &c. This confusion, adds the Doctor, prevails in common discourse, and is too much authorised by the example of some of our best writers ; as, He would have spoke. Milton, Paradise Lost, x. 517. Words interwove with sighs found out their... | |
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This general inclination and tendency of the language, seems to have given occasion to the introducing of a very great Corruption; by which the Form of the Past Time is confounded with that of the Participle in these Verbs, few in proportion, which have... 